Hot Day at the Zoo:
Long Way Home

By: Dennis Cook The best compliment one can pay an EP is that it leaves you hungry for more from the band. That's an easy compliment to give first rate string band and songwriters Hot Day at the Zoo's five-track salvo, Long Way Home (self-released), which begins with the satisfying rumble of a train. Then, a voice beamed in through an ol' fangled radio mic says, "I've been hating this here town since I was five-years-old/ I'm a lonesome forty-niner, babe/ I'm going down the road and not com...

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